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Actuators, Volume 14, Issue 5

May 2025 - 56 articles

Cover Story: This work focuses on the development of a humanoid robot featuring an optimally designed robotic leg to emulate human locomotion capabilities, including running, through a kinematically and kinetically anthropomorphic leg architecture. This study addresses key challenges in leg actuator design, particularly in achieving the necessary joint power output using compact configurations while maintaining structural integrity. The resulting robotic platform serves as a valuable tool for studying human locomotion and supports the development of human-inspired control strategies. View this paper
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Articles (56)

  • Article
  • Open Access
790 Views
19 Pages

13 May 2025

This research addresses the challenge of precise trajectory tracking for cart–pendulum robotic systems affected by unknown nonlinear actuator dynamics. We introduce a novel control framework that combines neural network modeling with adaptive p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
925 Views
29 Pages

13 May 2025

In this paper, we study the stability of the stochastically heterogeneous traffic flow involving connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and human-driven vehicles (HDVs). Taking the stochasticity of vehicle arrivals and behaviors into account, a gene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
880 Views
10 Pages

13 May 2025

The underwater unstructured environment poses new challenges for the miniaturization and flexibility of underwater vehicles. This paper proposes a method of using micrometer-scale vibrations of piezoelectric vibrators to drive macroscopic jets. Then,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,063 Views
18 Pages

13 May 2025

Effective fault diagnosis in rotating machinery means extracting fault features from complex samples. However, traditional data-driven methods often overly rely on labeled samples and struggle with extracting high-order complex features. To address t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
10,522 Views
26 Pages

13 May 2025

In this paper, we present the details of the actuator design for our humanoid robot, Mithra. Mithra has been designed to match an average adult human in terms of kinematic and kinetic characteristics. This poses various challenges in actuator design...

  • Article
  • Open Access
543 Views
21 Pages

12 May 2025

A novel brushless power feedback permanent magnet adjustable speed drive (BLPF-PMASD) is developed for the energy-saving of a large power electrical machine drive system in this paper. It can transfer the slip power between the input and output shaft...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,081 Views
20 Pages

Line-of-Sight Stabilization and High-Precision Target Tracking Technology of the Risley Prism System on Motion Platforms

  • Huayang Xia,
  • Hongfeng Xia,
  • Jinying Li,
  • Yunxia Xia,
  • Yihan Luo,
  • Liangzhu Yuan,
  • Haotong Ma,
  • Piao Wen and
  • Wenna Yuan

9 May 2025

The Risley prism system offers advantages such as compact structure and excellent dynamic performance, making it suitable for installation on static and motion platforms for target acquisition, aiming, and tracking. This paper presents a strapdown li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,787 Views
21 Pages

Robust Continuous Sliding-Mode-Based Assistive Torque Control for Series Elastic Actuator-Driven Hip Exoskeleton

  • Rui Wang,
  • Xiaoou Lin,
  • Changwei Yin,
  • Zhongtao Liu,
  • Yang Zhang,
  • Wenping Liu and
  • Fuxin Du

9 May 2025

In this paper, a real-time assistive torque controller based on sliding-mode control is proposed for a Series Elastic Actuator (SEA)-driven lower limb assistive exoskeleton. To address the problem of the lack of buffering properties and the uneven to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,176 Views
25 Pages

9 May 2025

In aerospace manufacturing, the reliability of machining equipment, particularly spindle bearings, is critical to maintaining productivity, as bearing health significantly constrains operational efficiency. Accurate prediction of the remaining useful...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,611 Views
22 Pages

Composite Adaptive Control of Robot Manipulators with Friction as Additive Disturbance

  • Daniel Gamez-Herrera,
  • Juan Sifuentes-Mijares,
  • Victor Santibañez and
  • Isaac Gandarilla

8 May 2025

In this paper, an adaptive control scheme composed of an estimated feed-forward compensation and a PD control law with three mutually independent estimators is proposed for the tracking of desired trajectories in joint space for a robotic arm. One of...

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Actuators - ISSN 2076-0825